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after election. continue to support brothers and sisters in the labor move. we'll engage young americans -- [applause] yes, thank you. [applause] we'll engage young americans across the country building a successful model to nurture our next generation of democratic leaders. we'll do that in part by expanding on the success of jen 44, building a finance arm of the dnc engaging in mobilizing the next generation of democrats. we'll continue the tradition of immigration, and ensure a level playing field for workers continuing to fight for comprehensive immigration reform. [applause] we'll make it clear that democrats welcome dreamers who see america as a land of opportunity. for americans, after years of determination, our nation is timely seeing historic progress. we have the largest number of openly gay members in congress and openly gay united states senator, and a president who stands up for lgtb rights. [applause] as democrats, our party will proudly continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the
after election. continue to support brothers and sisters in the labor move. we'll engage young americans -- [applause] yes, thank you. [applause] we'll engage young americans across the country building a successful model to nurture our next generation of democratic leaders. we'll do that in part by expanding on the success of jen 44, building a finance arm of the dnc engaging in mobilizing the next generation of democrats. we'll continue the tradition of immigration, and ensure a level playing...
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the political system's willing to focus on whether it's the next election cycle or partisanship or the public issue. the bottom line is not only do we have to put these savings policies in place, we have to thoughtful about how we do them, and when we talk about spending, we have to think about how we not only bring spending down, but readjust it and reprioritize it. we emphasize investment, not consumption. with an aging population, you have to bring in more revenues than in the past. if you do that in the same outdated anti-competitive tax system, it's going to choke the economy, and, yet, if you use the opportunity and bold about the tax reform needed on the individual and corporate side to kind of open up our economic systems to a globally competitive system, you can do this in a way that's good for the economy. we have hard choices to make, and we should give ourselves the time and thoughtfulness to put policies in place that those that deal with the deficit and also help to adding stable in terms what was as well as build economic growth. >> let me pick up on one piece of that ar
the political system's willing to focus on whether it's the next election cycle or partisanship or the public issue. the bottom line is not only do we have to put these savings policies in place, we have to thoughtful about how we do them, and when we talk about spending, we have to think about how we not only bring spending down, but readjust it and reprioritize it. we emphasize investment, not consumption. with an aging population, you have to bring in more revenues than in the past. if you...
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we look forward to working with our elected officials and all of goodwill towards this end. thank you. >> thank you, ambassador. so as you can see by this range of perspectives that the differences are not great, but the unity is very clear, that congress -- that the 113th congress must take advantage of the opportunity that lies ahead to pass broad immigration reform. so with this, i would like to take questions from the press and, please, as you ask your question, please introduce yourself, your name as well as your outlet. and, again, we'll only take questions from the working press. >> bill gibson from the south florida sun sentinel. i'd like to hear more about the republic super pac. will jeb bush and business people from some of the high-impact states like florida be a part of that? >> at this point we have -- [laughter] the, we're getting all the paperwork together, and we should be ready to go very, very soon. obviously, the role of the super pac is to raise money so that we in turn can use that to support immigration in districts where a republican is supportive. we
we look forward to working with our elected officials and all of goodwill towards this end. thank you. >> thank you, ambassador. so as you can see by this range of perspectives that the differences are not great, but the unity is very clear, that congress -- that the 113th congress must take advantage of the opportunity that lies ahead to pass broad immigration reform. so with this, i would like to take questions from the press and, please, as you ask your question, please introduce...
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the chances are we should have to because the six waited longer than we should have and it's the next election cycle or partisanship for the public interest has already taken and economic toll on what could have been because the bottom line is not only do we have to put these kind of savings policies in place, we have to be thoughtful about how we do them and when we are talking about spending, we have to think about how we not only bring spending down, but we readjust and prioritize and the budget completely emphasizes consumption instead of assumption. we need to turn that on its head and when we talk about revenue there is no question that was an aging population you have to bring in more revenue than you have in the past but if you do that in the same outdated anti-competitive tax system if you use this opportunity and you are bold about tax reform that we need on the individual and corporate side to open up our economic system you can do this in a way that is good for the economy so we have hard choices to make and we should give ourselves the time to put the policies in place that deal w
the chances are we should have to because the six waited longer than we should have and it's the next election cycle or partisanship for the public interest has already taken and economic toll on what could have been because the bottom line is not only do we have to put these kind of savings policies in place, we have to be thoughtful about how we do them and when we are talking about spending, we have to think about how we not only bring spending down, but we readjust and prioritize and the...
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poorly in regional elections. for them to be organized to run an election in the short term will be very -- it had challenges. in any way, putting down the opposition thing, that's a real challenge to get reorganized to raise the money they need, select a candidate and it going. it's very difficult for them. you have got this strange thing. you have the opposition, which is outraged by a whole bunch of things, but there is no international authority that is going to say, a supreme court must accept the description of the supreme court and its independence or lack thereof, but there is no independent body that will gain a decision by supreme court have any country in the world. not going to do anything. that's not what they do. so the opposition, i think, rightly frustrated by what they need to do is take that energy and focus on getting prepared to run a presidential election at some point, whether that is in a month or two months or six months. the need to be ready to go. of really glad that you brought into the
poorly in regional elections. for them to be organized to run an election in the short term will be very -- it had challenges. in any way, putting down the opposition thing, that's a real challenge to get reorganized to raise the money they need, select a candidate and it going. it's very difficult for them. you have got this strange thing. you have the opposition, which is outraged by a whole bunch of things, but there is no international authority that is going to say, a supreme court must...
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. >> that is a good question as we know often in the context of the election polling survey research firms have proprietary algorithms and usually four, five, six questions that allow them to break out likely voters to read our goal and motivation for this research is something different. for this purpose we care about the views of all americans. and so, we wanted to report the rate of support among americans broadly speaking would. so we didn't ask that likely voter battery to be able to sense that data. there are other i think important ways once we have time to further analyze the data beyond what will appear in the chapter that may be of interest in terms of the region of the country. it's important also correlated with a gun ownership so that has to be done with care. parents versus non-parents. we talked about how age matters on this issue, and so just being here in the university context i think is important to understand how younger people versus older people think about issues related to gun violence to see whether there are generational effect and that gives insight into wh
. >> that is a good question as we know often in the context of the election polling survey research firms have proprietary algorithms and usually four, five, six questions that allow them to break out likely voters to read our goal and motivation for this research is something different. for this purpose we care about the views of all americans. and so, we wanted to report the rate of support among americans broadly speaking would. so we didn't ask that likely voter battery to be able to...